Figures from the world of Spanish literature, art, cinema, journalism and music showed their support for the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, in an event together with the leaders of CC.OO. and UGT At the event, they claimed “decency” in democracy because “the country is in a dangerous moment”, as the actress Marisa Paredes said, and they took a stand “against the culture of hate”. Among the attendees were also the director of the Cervantes Institute Luis García Montero, the writer Benjamín Prados, the singer Miguel Ríos, as well as the theater director José Carlos Plaza, the actresses Loles León and Nathalie Poza and the president of the Círculo de Fine Arts of Madrid, Juan Miguel Hernández León.
The meeting took place in the packed Marcelino Camacho auditorium and was also supported by filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, who could not attend because he was in New York finishing shooting his next film, but who send a letter that Marisa Paredes read, in which she appealed to “wake up” from the “nightmare and stupor” and to organize some act of support for Sánchez.
The event began with the intervention of the secretary general of CC.OO., Unai Sordo, who said that in Spain it is intended to “normalize the seizure of one of the three powers of the State”, clarifying that he was referring to the power judicial, while his UGT counterpart, Pepe Álvarez, defended that Spain and culture want to “live in freedom”.
The call was made without acronyms in order to be able to accommodate different political sensitivities. García Montero was in charge of reading the manifesto entitled For democratic decency, in which it was warned that “the culture of hatred, impudence and lies endanger democratic coexistence”.
The text included a denunciation of “a self-interested politics of tension” caused by sectors “that do not accept the electoral results” and that “confuse the opposition with institutional degradation and the political debate with insult and insult” perpetual scandal”. In addition, it was warned that the strategy of generating “unfounded suspicions about public and private lives” is intended to “hide discussions and differences about health, education, taxation and labor relations”.
